Hermione's Time Turner

[M.Clifford]

No: HPFGUIDX 119025


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Vivamus" <Vivamus at T...> wrote:
> > Vivamus wrote:
> > <huge snip of interesting post on time-turning>
> > 
> > > I'm pretty sure we haven't seen the end of time travel, 
though.  Remember the Quidditch World Cup?   Fred and George bet 
everything they had on a hundred to one shot, with complete 
confidence, and no indication of surprise that they had won.  
Somehow, they *knew.* <big
> > snip>
> > >
> > Carol responds:
> > I've addressed this before, so apologies to anyone who 
> > already knows my views. IMO, it's extremely unlikely that the 
> > twins had a time turner. They seem to be rare items and 
> > highly regulated. All it took, really, to win that bet was 
> > brains and the Twins' usual creative approach to everything. 
> > 
> > They knew that Krum was the best Seeker in the world, 
> > therefore he would catch the Snitch; they also knew that 
> > Ireland had the best *team* in the world, therefore they would 
win the match. 


Vivamus again:
>  I think we'll have to disagree on the Weasley twins, though.  
While your analysis of what they might have done is certainly 
reasonable, and certainly within their abilities, they expressed a 
confidence, both in their attitude and it betting everything
> they had, that suggested to me that they weren't guessing. 

Valky:
Very interesting argument Vivamus, and although Carol, your 
reasoning is sharp and highly logical, I wonder just how far this 
investigation really has gone.
I mean, has anyone, for example, referenced GOF for the moment that 
the twins actually first appeared at the Burrow on the day of the 
QWC. If they had time turned I am sure there would be some kind of 
hint of them appearing to be in two places at once. I don't have GOF 
here at the moment, and Oh I am missing it right now with all this 
interesting conversation going on, perhaps I need a second copy.